importing drugs into Bermuda yesterday told how a Bermudian woman gave him $50,000 to take to New York to pay for a cocaine purchase.

Oswald Ferrel told a Supreme Court jury how Charlene Webb told him to take money to New York on an American Airlines flight and give it to a man at John F. Kennedy Airport.

But Ferrel was stopped at Customs in Bermuda in September, 1993 with undeclared foreign currency and was searched.

"I told the officers that I was taking money away for Charlene Webb and that it could be found in the seat of the airplane,'' he said.

Webb, a 27-year-old accounts clerk at St. Brendan's Hospital, is accused of using US Navy personnel and their Base post office boxes to import cocaine and cannabis into the Island.

The White Hill, Sandys Parish resident denies conspiring with Ferrel to import cocaine and cannabis between February 20, 1992 and October 13, 1993, importing cocaine and cannabis and possessing those drugs intended for supply.

The prosecution says one package seized by narcotics officers contained 459 grams of cocaine which had an 82 percent purity and a street value of $145,750 and 863 grams of cannabis with a street value of $43,150 a total value of $188,900.

Ferrel's evidence followed that of Carl C. Storey, a US navy communication technician who served 15 months of a five year sentence in a US Navy prison for importing drugs onto the Base.

Storey told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that he received packages containing drugs for Webb from April to July, 1993 and each time he was given $8,000. He said he was introduced to Webb by Base serviceman Lyndell Fletcher who had previously received drugs in his post box for her and later introduced her to Ferrel.

Ferrel said he was introduced to Webb by Storey at Horseshoe Bay in August.

Storey told Ferrel that he would receive $7,000 for each shipment of drugs he received through his navy post box.

And Webb told him how she sent money on an airline to the US to pay for the drugs and required people to take it with them.

Ferrel said that after Storey left the Base, he received a call from Webb telling him that she was sending off some money.

"I didn't speak to her again until September 23. She called and said that she was going to bring me some money so I could go to New York to take some money.

"She came on the Base and gave me an envelope with $2,000 in it. Half of the money was the balance that she owed Storey and she told me to contact him to let him know I had it.

"Charlene told me to make reservations for the following morning on American Airlines. She told me that I would give $50,000 to a man holding a sign at the JFK airport.'' Ferrel added that when he went to the Airport he was searched by Police after he lied about the amount of money he was taking out of Bermuda.

"I was searched by P.c. Richardson who found other money that I had in a pouch. He asked me why I lied about the amount of money I had on me and I told him that I had nothing to hide. I admitted that I was taking money to New York for Charlene Webb.

"Bob Braton, of investigative services on the Base came to see me at the Police Station and I told him that I could stop drugs coming into the Base.

"The next day I called Charlene and told her that I think I lost the money and she told me not to worry about it. When I saw her a few days later I told her I had a post office box that she could use and no one could touch it.'' Farrel added that on October 11, 1993 a package arrived and he called Webb. A Police officer was present and had a device on the phone.

"I took a cab to meet Charlene at St. Brendan's Hospital and Braton, P.c.

Richardson and other officers followed in a white van.

"I told Charlene that the package was in the car and she told me to take it around to another entrance. I handed the package to Charlene and the taxi took me down to the pharmacy where the officers told me to wait.'' In cross-examination, Mr. Frank Phipps QC, who is representing Webb told Ferrel that he wanted to make a clean break of everything after he had been found with more currency than he had declared.

"Later that day when you were questioned by Police you were asked the surname of Charlene and you said you did not know but you say you had been introduced to her and saw her on different occasions.

"Are you a user of cocaine?'' Mr. Phipps asked.

Ferrel replied no. But Mr. Phipps reminded him that his urine tested positive for cocaine when he first arrived in Bermuda.

He also questioned Ferrel about using the post office box of serviceman Robert Gant and telling him that the package coming in would only be shoes.

"You exposed Gant to serious consequences and you gave evidence for the prosecution in Gant's trial.'' Mr. Phipps added: "You know Miss Webb never made any agreement with you to bring in drugs, and you were never introduced to her. That is why you could not remember her last name. In order to save your own skin you decided to implicate innocent people like Miss Webb and Gant.''